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Caption: Dizzy Gillespie
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Clifford Brown
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
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Older, Middle and Younger generation guests discuss Marijuana...then, now and in the future

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bud Powell
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Benny Goodman
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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We time travel backwards to talk vinyl, old sounds and collecting records

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
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The Island of California appeared on maps for over a century.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
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Rubber Duckies aren't just an old fashioned bathtub toy.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk was an original voice in the shaping the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano playing continue t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Göta Canal, Credit: Insightguides.com
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
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In this excerpt from the documentary "Everything Was Right: The Beatles' Revolver," writers Steve Turner and Jim DeRogatis tell host Paul Ingles ho...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WFPL News, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: At Broad Channel -- dinner. , Credit: Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
The History Guys recover from their Thanksgiving feasts with a look back at the history of mealtime in America. From Victorian table manners to the...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The duty of the hour; - to save her not only from Spain, but from a worse fate."  Chromolithograph, 1898., Credit: Library of Congress
Fifty years ago this week, a U.S. military jet photographed strategic nuclear missiles that had been installed by the Soviets in Cuba. Over the nex...

Bought by WRPI and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chicago Kent College of Law indoor baseball player, M. Ryan. 1910.
In this episode of BackStory, the History Guys unpack the origins of college sports and the ways universities have justified athletics on campus. P...

Bought by WTJU and KREV-LP


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  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "The great Bartholdi statue, Liberty enlightening the world", Currier & Ives, 1885, Credit: Library of Congress
This week on BackStory, the History Guys tackle the myth of the city upon a hill: American exceptionalism. They trace its origins in Alexis de Tocq...

Bought by KREV-LP, Prairie Public, WCAI / WNAN, and WMMT


  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Peter Drucker
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Business Talent Group's Jody Greenstone Miller and then we hear a rare audio recording of Peter Drucker on the mobil...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:13
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The most popular exhibit and biggest money-maker at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was the "Philippine Reservation." 1,000 Filipinos lived in thi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 1
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4 Moments with legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gunflint Mail Run
When the John Beargrease sled dog marathon was cancelled, racers banded together to offer an alternate course. The Mail Run race, only a couple wee...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:50